Re: what is portmap?
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
> > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely
> > update-rc.d remove it?
>
> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are
> the 2 main services that need it.
>
> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system
> it will restore all the symlinks to the default configuration. Instead
> just remove the 'S' symlinks (the ones that start portmap) by hand.
> Leave the 'K' symlinks. If you leave some symlinks in place then
> your configuration won't be overwritten when you upgrade.
well! this brings up an interesting point --
is there a DEBIAN-happy way to permanently remove an
/etc/init.d/* service? this wholesale 'rm' stuff sounds hacky
for such a streamlined apt-friendly distribution. what's the
debian way of purging-inits-for-posterity?
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #12 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Where is the DOCUMENTATION? It's all over the place... and there's
lots of it. Much was written for non-debian distributions, and
much was written long, long ago. But try these anyhow: on your
own system, try "man" and "info" and "apropos", and also look
under /usr/share/doc/<package>* ... Online, there's linuxdoc.org,
debianhelp.org, and debian.org/doc/ of course. Also try
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/general/index-deb-help-sys.html
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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